Sylvester Coleman has over 15 years of extensive on-the-ground experience leading entomological surveillance activities in Ghana and Malawi, two vastly different ecological and cultural settings.

Currently Sylvester is leading investigations into mosquito population dynamics and behaviour within an emerging agricultural landscape in southern Malawi for the National Institute for Health and Care Research-funded Shire Valley Vector Control Project. He is an advocate for a One Health strategy to reduce vector-borne disease and recently secured an award to pilot the use of ivermectin in livestock for controlling zoophilic malaria vectors and ectoparasites in cattle.

Sylvester’s research to date has focused on improving the efficacy of vector control interventions through robust surveillance. He is developing expertise leading operational research into the impacts of anthropogenic changes on mosquito borne disease transmission dynamics and vector control efficacy, to inform the development of more effective and sustainable vector control strategies.